In this movie I'll show you how to automatically correct a photographic image…using a Levels Adjustment.…Now as you may recall from our discussion of the Auto Adjustments back in…Chapter 7 of the Fundamentals Course.…You have three commands available to you under the Image menu, Auto Tone, Auto…Contrast, and Auto Color.…Don't really think that much of them, don't use them on a regular basis, but…there's also another one, which is the Auto button that's included along with…Brightness/Contrast, and it does quite a good job.…The Auto function that's included along with Levels might be even better and…is a unique animal.…

Now you can get to it in a couple of different ways.…You can go to the Adjustments submenu and choose the Levels command, or you can…press Ctrl+L, or Command+L on the Mac.…But that's going to apply a static color adjustment.…You're going to permanently modify the pixels in your image, you are not going…to be able to change your settings later.…So the better way to work is to drop down to the Black/White icon at the bottom…

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7/20/2012

In this course, industry pro Deke McClelland teaches you how to build on your basic knowledge and achieve next-level effects in the premiere image-editing program from Adobe, Photoshop CS6. Discover how to seamlessly move and patch areas of a photo with the Content-Aware toolset; stretch the brightness of a scene with automatic and custom Levels adjustments; create intricate designs with text and shapes; and morph an image with layer effects and transformations. Deke also shares his techniques for sharpening details, whether addressing noise and highlight/shadow clipping or camera shake, and converting a full-color image to black-and-white. The final chapters show you how to best print and save images for the web, making sure all your hard work pays off in the final output.

Topics include:

Performing automatic retouch, scaling, and more with the Content-Aware tools